Selfies and videos of teenagers: The role of gender, territory, and sociocultural level

 Uxía Regueira, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

 Ángela González-Villa, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

 Esther Martínez-Piñeiro, University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

https://doi.org/10.3916/C75-2023-05

Keywords

Gender, practices, adolescence, social media, selfie, video

Abstract

Social networks integrate adolescent daily life by configuring modes of socialisation, negotiation and self-representation through different practices that operate as subjectivation resources and condition the gender experience. The objective of this study is to explore the production of selfies and videos among adolescents from Puebla (Mexico) and Galicia (Spain) from a gender, territorial, and sociocultural perspective. A survey study was carried out using an online questionnaire designed ad hoc and applied to 6,654 adolescents (14-17 years), with different gender identities, from public secondary schools in Puebla and Galicia. The results show that the selfie is a more widespread practice among adolescents than video, with revealing differences in its production. Similarities are evident in the level of preparation and the motivations that lead to these practices. Gender differences are found in their production in terms of intentions, materialities, and body expression. The family’s sociocultural level and the territory are visualised as realities that affect the production of these practices. The conclusions point to a transition of knowledge and meanings between the selfie and video and the relevance of analysing gender experience on social networks in light of the forms of power they exercise there.

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This study is an action of the R&D&I project “Entornos digitales e identidades de género en la adolescencia” (Digital Environments and Gender Identities in Adolescence, EDIGA), with reference PID2019-108221RB-100, in the frame of the State Programme for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I System and the State Programme for R&D&I Oriented towards the Challenges of Society, financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

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Received: 29-09-2022

Revised: 20-10-2022

Accepted: 29-11-2022

OnlineFirst: 30-01-2023

Publication date: 01-04-2023

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